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PEACE of Cake
Start date: Jun 20, 2014, End date: Nov 19, 2014 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project Peace of Cake, is a meeting of young people from Pontinia (Italy ) Ahrensburg (Germany) Marsella (France) and Esplugues de Llobregat ( Spain ) in the Espai Jove Remoli, the youth centre of Esplugues. The project objectives are: - Raise awareness among young people about the importance of food habits, - Participation of citizens through an astronomical meeting, collect food to donate to Food Bank - Speak about organic/ecological food, zero kilometer and cooperation - Food as an integration tool - Create a book/blog with international recipes, designed by the participants The activity takes place during july 2014, bringing together 32 youngsters and 8 youthleaders. The program is designed in such a way that the participants begin with discussions about food, ecology and local poverty, to work on subjects as mutual respect and social inclusion. The participants will visit several asociations that organize soup kitchens, and organic markets in Esplugues and Barcelona. All activities are related to sustainability and combating unemployment . The group will be divided into small teams to work on different tasks: - Create several recipes for a starter, salads and desserts / pastries - Prepare the recipes, cooking and testing in order to improve for the final presentation of the day gastronomic encounter, using the prepared food as lunch or dinner. - Document the work book recipes/recipe blog -Create a urban garden. - A neighbourhood come together to join the multicultural gastronomic market, and present the project on the last day of the project. In change for food aliment the neighbors receive a voucher to taste the recipes cooked by the participants. The food donation is a symbolic entrance for the Food Bank of Esplugues. All actions carried out in the project promote youth empowerment in their city and its surroundings. As a follow-up activities are planned cooking workshops given by the participants to share their new knowledge in their own neighborhood. The partners of Italy, Germany and France will host a similar project in 2015/2016
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